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In the mine, our parents told us women: "You have to learn to cook because you have to have a husband. You don't have to study, you don't have to give your opinion". I have lived those times, and I have rebelled.

— Martha Yujra

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Today Bolivians are more united than ever.

It is important to preserve the cultural practices of our Bolivian people because they enrich the national identity. My commitment, as a woman in pollera, is to continue fighting for a country united in diversity.

It is women's time. We are the ones who take the reins of this country.

... he who does nothing fears nothing. I have no reason to hide, why hide?

[I want to remembered] as an Aymara woman, from El Alto, and humble. But a leader should never say "me, me, me", but rather the bases have to decide who to remember and who to forget.

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